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Re: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?]
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:
> Strange, we haven't had any complaints. It seemst that MiKTeX
> installs and runs flawlessly. Note that, of course, MiKTeX is
> packaged in a tarball and installed through setup.exe. Maybe our
> Windows users are all using that latest software?
Is it really only me running WinNT without IE > 2?
> > Did you install the teTeX texmf tree?
>
> No, I installed tetex-beta, that's all the tetex that setup.exe will
> install, right? That's why we still have to distribute and maitain
> our own, modified setup.exe and repository (apart from the just lifted
> package moratorium).
>
> > Just installing Tetex-beta is not enough, as explained by the
> > Tetex-beta readme.
>
> Yes, I know. That's why we can't use it. Users in general won't read
> READMEs, let alone they would be able to follow simple instructions
> :-(
>
> The fact that there's a README with instructions, instead of an
> additional tetex package, for example, tells me that there is some
> intelligent user-interaction required.
>
Now I see. We're talking about semi-intelligent end-users ;-/ I see no
easy way how Cygwin setup.exe could provide a full TeX system unless a
copy of the teTeX texmf tree is made part of the distribution. Would
that be possible?
regards,
Markus
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